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  == Reporting -- What “svn mergeinfo” Should Say ==
  In  order for a user to understand what merges they have done and need to  
do, it would be most helpful if Subversion could tell them the current  state 
of a branch with regard to merges.  The existing “svn mergeinfo”  command is 
near useless for such understanding: it just outputs a list  of revnums without 
saying what that means in terms of whether the target  is fully caught up or 
not; it doesn’t report anything meaningful about  subtree merges and doesn’t 
even notice them by default; it doesn’t check  that you specified a sensible 
source branch and simply says nothing if  you accidentally specified the target 
branch.
  
+ (Mark Phippard said, and I agree with this: "It will be interesting to see if 
you can show both eligible and merged information at the same time in a way 
that is understandable.  I think if the command can show some things like there 
the branch came from, or the other path that the branch is merging with, could 
be useful new information.  Sort of like svn info for a branch.  I think it 
makes sense to highly condense the revisions as they are never going to add a 
lot of value in this kind of context.")
+ 
  In a WC of ''feature branch'' “B”, which has had catch-ups through trunk@1234 
except trunk@1215:
  
   * Mergeinfo summary:<<BR>>
@@ -118, +120 @@

  
  Discussed in [[http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-09/0201.shtml|this email 
thread]].
  
+ === Mergeinfo command - backward compatibility ===
+ If you specify --show-revs={eligible|merged} you'll get the old simple list 
of revs, and if you don't specify either of those then you'll get the new 
summary instead.  Discussed in 
[[http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-10/0048.shtml|this email thread]].
+ 

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